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. >> ifill: jeffrey brown examines new concerns over syria's chemical weapons capability and what, if anything, the u.s. can do about it. >> woodruff: from florida, hari sreenivasan has the story of endangered coral reefs. many of them dying because ocean temperatures are rising and the waters are more acidic. >> i remember seeing fields of elk horn coral that you couldn't see through it and you couldn't see beyond it and those same areas are dead you know 99% dead. ♪ >> ifill: and we close with a remembrance of jazz great dave brubeck who died today, one day shy of his 92nd birthday. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the nation's third- largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. the 11,000 employees to be
. >> ifill: jeffrey brown examines new concerns over syria's chemical weapons capability and what, if anything, the u.s. can do about it. >> woodruff: from florida, hari sreenivasan has the story of endangered coral reefs. many of them dying because ocean temperatures are rising and the waters are more acidic. >> i remember seeing fields of elk horn coral that you couldn't see through it and you couldn't see beyond it and those same areas are dead you know 99% dead. ♪...
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and he was associated with a couple of particular things targeted syria and syria allies in lebanon. one was the vestigation into the murder of former prime minister rafikve hariri in 2005 andost recently he was seen as beio involved in the arrest of one of the syrian president assad's top allies in lebanon which was seen as a very bold move for the intelligence services in lebanon. >> brown: no one has tak respoibility for the bombing yet, i gather.y who what is the thinking there? what is being talked about? who is being looked at? >> well, politicians in lebanon who are associated with the sort of anti-assad movement have been very quick to blame assad. for many lebanese the bomb today was a huge blast, was reminiscent of a string of attacks which took place against anti-syrian politicians in the year 2005 to 2008. so there's a lot of people targeting theta syrians for this, although syria has condemned the attack. and described it as an ago of terrorism. but there are protests in areas of lebanon, sort of associated with opposition to the syrian regime today. so the mood on the s
and he was associated with a couple of particular things targeted syria and syria allies in lebanon. one was the vestigation into the murder of former prime minister rafikve hariri in 2005 andost recently he was seen as beio involved in the arrest of one of the syrian president assad's top allies in lebanon which was seen as a very bold move for the intelligence services in lebanon. >> brown: no one has tak respoibility for the bombing yet, i gather.y who what is the thinking there? what...
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you have conflagrations within syria. the whole region is teetering and the whole region is brittle, politically and strategically. and into the mix now the israelis come with this major operation against gaza. they cannot live in the region and claim that they are to the going to be touched by the reverberations taking place in the region. >> brown: do you see a kind of political solution? and what will the u.s. role be. >> i disagree with a lot of things that was said now. but one thing i very strongly agree. there is no political solution. and there can to the be a political solution because what you have in gaza is an organization dedicated it to the destruction of israel, dedicated to killing of jews. this is what they say openly. i mean this is not an interpretation of what they're saying. this is what they're saying. as long as the threat exists they will fight israel. they are committed to an anti-sellity-- anti-semitic of killing juice jews, it's in their charter n their document t is what they are openly saying.
you have conflagrations within syria. the whole region is teetering and the whole region is brittle, politically and strategically. and into the mix now the israelis come with this major operation against gaza. they cannot live in the region and claim that they are to the going to be touched by the reverberations taking place in the region. >> brown: do you see a kind of political solution? and what will the u.s. role be. >> i disagree with a lot of things that was said now. but one...
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meanwhile in syria, government tanks assaulted the last rebel stronghold in damascus. and mortar rounds killed at least 20 people at a palestinian refugee camp in the city. palestinian officials in the west bank voiced outrage. >> ( translated ): we ask all the different parties not to drag the palestinians into the ongoing fighting. i repeat the palestinian leadership position: to avoid anything that might be fueling the conflict, and to maintain the unity of syria. to keep it from any division or external interference, and also to keep the demands of the syrian people. >> sreenivasan: the fighting also escalated in and around aleppo. rebels battled to hold on to sections of the city and buildings like this hospital in a nearby suburb were left in ruins. damaged vehicles and debris littered the streets after days of heavy combat between the rebels and government forces. at the summer olympics in london, track and field got underway, as swimming neared its climax. spoiler alt:ve we ha some of the results now, so if you don't want to know just yet, tune out for a moment
meanwhile in syria, government tanks assaulted the last rebel stronghold in damascus. and mortar rounds killed at least 20 people at a palestinian refugee camp in the city. palestinian officials in the west bank voiced outrage. >> ( translated ): we ask all the different parties not to drag the palestinians into the ongoing fighting. i repeat the palestinian leadership position: to avoid anything that might be fueling the conflict, and to maintain the unity of syria. to keep it from any...
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syria unlike libya has real national military strength. the population density is maybe 25 or 30 times greater than libya. what's also-- plus in libya we are seeing the difficulties now in the aftermath of having ousted qaddafi, again, that is why i come back to and i think there is agreement. that a long pro traekted kill war is not the answer. you want to think about establishing a political dynamic inside the country where the narrow band of the population that is supporting the regime begins to move away from it and i think you do that with political incentives and with ecomicressure. and don't get me wrong. the humanitarian stakes are great here. and so are the strategic stakesment way like to see nothing more than the assad government disappear and its principles backer, iran suffer a serious strategic defeat. so i think we're all agreed on where we want to get to. it is really a question of the manies. and something that you heard before from anne-marie slaughter is spot on. there are no good options here. we've got limited influenc
syria unlike libya has real national military strength. the population density is maybe 25 or 30 times greater than libya. what's also-- plus in libya we are seeing the difficulties now in the aftermath of having ousted qaddafi, again, that is why i come back to and i think there is agreement. that a long pro traekted kill war is not the answer. you want to think about establishing a political dynamic inside the country where the narrow band of the population that is supporting the regime...
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. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez updates the bloodshed in syria as government troops bombarded the rebel-held city of homs and u.n. monitors reached the scene of the latest massacre. >> brown: from el salvador, we have the story of an epidemic of tooth decay in the countryside blamed largely on american junk food and sodas. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i had never seen this before. what happened. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we look at the dashed hopes for a triple crown winner this year as the colt i'll have another is scratched from the belmont stakes after a leg injury. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the united states almost 30 years ago, i could not find an omega-3 fish oil that worked for me. i became inspired to bring a new definition of fish oil
. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez updates the bloodshed in syria as government troops bombarded the rebel-held city of homs and u.n. monitors reached the scene of the latest massacre. >> brown: from el salvador, we have the story of an epidemic of tooth decay in the countryside blamed largely on american junk food and sodas. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i...
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syria is sliding into civil war. but libya after the overthrow of qaddafi we just haven't heard very much about what is going on there. has it settled down? >> no, i don't think you could say libya has settled down yet. i don't think that it would be possible to glide seamlessly from 42 years of dictatorship to democracy overnight. the future of libya really does hang in the balance at the moment. because after the revolution libya has got such disparate views on what they want. some people want a secular state. some people want a an islamist state. and those young men who we saw during the revolution firing their weapons into the air and-- they don't want to give those weapons up. and the central government such as it is, really is very week. it has little legitimacy. >> and your book reminded us just how thinly populated and how fast an area this country really is. is it harder to make common cause, harder to make one country out of a place with the peculiar demographic and geographic challenges of libya? >> well,
syria is sliding into civil war. but libya after the overthrow of qaddafi we just haven't heard very much about what is going on there. has it settled down? >> no, i don't think you could say libya has settled down yet. i don't think that it would be possible to glide seamlessly from 42 years of dictatorship to democracy overnight. the future of libya really does hang in the balance at the moment. because after the revolution libya has got such disparate views on what they want. some...
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they weren't even citizens of syria. and they don't trust, the free syrian army, the sunni arab rebels-- they don't have a bond with them and they don't trust them any more than they did assad. they don't trust in a post-assad syria, if it was completely run by the rebeles, the rebels we know of, that they would have any more rights than they did under assad. so instead they've been training over in camps in iraqi kurdistan, and hoping to take advantage of this chaos to carve out areas that could ultimately become an independent syrian kurdish state. >> suarez: in the meantime, as syria's war widens, the pressure on turkey has grown as we've seen from your previous reporting here on the newshour. but recently, the ankara government has made an interesting request to nato. tell us more about it. >> warner: you're absolutely right, ray, turkey has requested-- actually a week or so ago-- for nato to send patriot missile batteries to defend turkey's border and airspace against any incoming of any sort that could wowld come i
they weren't even citizens of syria. and they don't trust, the free syrian army, the sunni arab rebels-- they don't have a bond with them and they don't trust them any more than they did assad. they don't trust in a post-assad syria, if it was completely run by the rebeles, the rebels we know of, that they would have any more rights than they did under assad. so instead they've been training over in camps in iraqi kurdistan, and hoping to take advantage of this chaos to carve out areas that...
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he also met with president assad in syria to discuss dissident activity. soueid was arrested and charged last year. find the story we reported about soueid in december on our web site. >> brown: and to the analysis of brooks and dionne-- "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist e.j. dionne, filling in for mark shields. and joining in for the first part of our discussion is our own judy woodruff, who's in florida tonight covering the campaign. and judy, i want to start with you and the top story of the day-- the shootings in aurora. you were at the event in florida this morning where the president spoke about it. tell us about that, what administration officials were telling you and what the reaction. heard about it this morning i reached out to the obama campaign officials who were traveling with the president. they had already decided at that point that they were going to shorten the president's remarks here that it was going to change the complete nature of what was supposed to be in fort myers, florida, and the southwest p
he also met with president assad in syria to discuss dissident activity. soueid was arrested and charged last year. find the story we reported about soueid in december on our web site. >> brown: and to the analysis of brooks and dionne-- "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist e.j. dionne, filling in for mark shields. and joining in for the first part of our discussion is our own judy woodruff, who's in florida tonight covering the...
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are operating inside syria. there is no longer any doubt that tehran will do whatever it takes to protect its proxy and crony in damascus. >> sreenivasan: in washington, defense secretary leon panetta confirmed the u.s. has intelligence that shows the syrian regime has moved some of its chemical weapons to better secure them. he also said the major stockpiles at main sites are believed to be secure. in august, president obama threatened u.s. action if syria moves or uses its chemical weapons. meanwhile, in syria, the battle for control of the northern city of aleppo intensified as rebels made their broadest push yet to drive assad's forces out. heavy clashes were reported with government troops firing tank and mortar shells, while rebels fought back with heavy machine guns, mortars and rocket- propelled grenades. it was the heaviest fighting the city has seen in two months. in iraq, some 80 inmates, including al qaeda militants, escaped from a prison. the jailbreak happened overnight in tikrit after several conv
are operating inside syria. there is no longer any doubt that tehran will do whatever it takes to protect its proxy and crony in damascus. >> sreenivasan: in washington, defense secretary leon panetta confirmed the u.s. has intelligence that shows the syrian regime has moved some of its chemical weapons to better secure them. he also said the major stockpiles at main sites are believed to be secure. in august, president obama threatened u.s. action if syria moves or uses its chemical...
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we are for the people of syria. turkey has, from the very beginning, had, i think, shown a very strong reaction to the killings, to the atrocities, to the shelling of the cities, to the humanitarian disaster that has been caused by the, i think, the upreasonable acts of the syrian administration. and for the time being, we have had no change in our position. it's, i think, a responsibility for us as the, i think, one of the most important neighbors of syria to try to protect the civilians. >> suarez: is it turkey's position that there can be no future for syria with bashar al-assad in charge? >> well, i think it is almost over, i can say, because syrian administration from the very beginning, really we could not understand why they did this. but they were quite reluctant to what we asked them to do. >> suarez: there are some suggestions in our program that this is another perhaps serve thesa? this is a humanitarian disaster? >> the conditions there from the reports we received from our sources in the region, the sit
we are for the people of syria. turkey has, from the very beginning, had, i think, shown a very strong reaction to the killings, to the atrocities, to the shelling of the cities, to the humanitarian disaster that has been caused by the, i think, the upreasonable acts of the syrian administration. and for the time being, we have had no change in our position. it's, i think, a responsibility for us as the, i think, one of the most important neighbors of syria to try to protect the civilians....